Expressive Ancestor Portraits Erin Faith Allen

Expressive Ancestor Portraits Erin Faith Allen

Join artist and historian Erin Faith Allen for the life-changing experience of vividly storytelling the people who roam in your bones. You will explore evocative characters of your lineage through collage, expressive mixed media drawing and painting, mark-making, and...
Deconstructed Faces with Kate Thompson

Deconstructed Faces with Kate Thompson

Learn from Kate Thompson how to break down a face for success with portraits.  In this course you will be working on two faces. One is painted and the other one is a pencil drawing. Kate will show you how to render the pencil drawing using the cross hatching...
Holiday Home*ologie with Daune Pitman

Holiday Home*ologie with Daune Pitman

Home is the beating heart of the holidays. Our homes are visual representations of the things we love and hold dear; and our most powerful place of ministry—to those under our roof and all that cross its threshold. They are a sacred space of beauty, experiences, and...
Foraged Landscapes with Kristy Kensinger

Foraged Landscapes with Kristy Kensinger

The natural world allows us to connect to ourselves and our surroundings. Being part of nature has a way of heightening your senses and allowing you to be fully immersed in the present moment. By bringing nature into your artwork, you can obtain a broader connection...
The Magpie’s Nest with Aimee Irel Bishop

The Magpie’s Nest with Aimee Irel Bishop

Are you a collector of the weird and wonderful? Do you long to find your truest artistic expression? Do you find yourself picking up little things that catch your eye when you are on walks? Do you save little pieces or special paper and fabric? Let’s explore the...
Words and Art with Shaunna Parker

Words and Art with Shaunna Parker

Life is made of stories. Whether you are a natural born writer or not, the beauty of storytelling through words and art is a powerful expression. Learning to lean into your own stories and transforming the power of words into painting from your own imagination is...
The Alchemist with Kate Poole

The Alchemist with Kate Poole

So many friends who have come to our home for the first time walk through the door and ask me, “What is that smell?” It is hard to explain to them that it is never one thing. It is a layering of fragrance over the whole house that makes our home smell the way it does....
Textural Minimalism with Stephanie Lee

Textural Minimalism with Stephanie Lee

If you ever struggle with creating dimension and depth to your art in a way that feels intentional and integrated, this course offers solutions that are much more accessible than you may have thought. In this workshop, you will learn new ways of seeing and modifying...
Wallflowers with Renee Mueller

Wallflowers with Renee Mueller

This course explores the beautiful subject of flowers and how to weave them into our work with intention—by taking inspiration from the graceful moody paintings of the Old Dutch Masters and a nod to the moving florals of the Impressionist. We will begin with floral...
Painting With Wool with Deanne Fitzpatrick

Painting With Wool with Deanne Fitzpatrick

In this course I want to introduce you to the craft and art of rug hooking as I do it at Deanne Fitzpatrick Studio. Rug hooking is more than making rugs. You can use it to express yourself and become creative. In fact, it can be painting with wool. It is just another...
The Atelier with Marian Parsons

The Atelier with Marian Parsons

It’s so easy to be wooed by the wide array of paint colors available on the market, but there is beauty and harmony to be discovered in creating paintings with a limited palette. In this class, Marian Parsons, a paint enthusiast and lover of color, will show you...
The Art of Gathering with Jeanne Oliver

The Art of Gathering with Jeanne Oliver

Over the past 13 + years we have gathered others through live workshops here in the United States and abroad. Whether we have been leading a group making art along the Seine, taking a bike ride through the vineyards of Austria, baking croissants in Paris or opening...
Free Art Video: Doodle Drawings with Julie Hamilton

Free Art Video: Doodle Drawings with Julie Hamilton

In this free art lesson you will begin by creating organic ground markings on a simple piece of paper with your sharpie. These markings can be slow and controlled or chaotic mindless scribbles and doodling. Either way you end up with an amazing piece. In this easy to...
Free Art Video: Sketchy Roses with Mary Gregory

Free Art Video: Sketchy Roses with Mary Gregory

In this free art lesson you will begin by creating a floral still life sketch using three colors in a sketchy and loose format that will bring your piece to life! In this easy to follow lesson, Mary’s emphasis is to keep it simple and light for all skill types. ...
Free Art Video: Brave Color Mixing with Hayley Morgan

Free Art Video: Brave Color Mixing with Hayley Morgan

Join Hayley Morgan for Brave Color Mixing. In this free art lesson you will create your own imaginative palette. In this easy to follow lesson Hayley will show you step by step how to color mix as she also shares more about her own choices and the colors she likes to...
Free Art Video: Expressive Portrait with Renee Mueller

Free Art Video: Expressive Portrait with Renee Mueller

This is a free video with Renee Mueller taken from her course Graceful Muse. Finding grace and beauty in the face of someone you care about will give you a deeper connection to your artwork. In this expressive portrait, we will abandon perfection and allow the...
Artful Junk Birds with Lori Siebert

Artful Junk Birds with Lori Siebert

These artful “Junk Birds” began with a challenge Lori took part in from the NBC “Making It” show during Covid. The first challenge was to make something using stuff from your junk drawer. She decided to create a bird sculpture using toothpicks, popsicle sticks, dice,...
To Make A Macramé Workshop with Jesse Jicha

To Make A Macramé Workshop with Jesse Jicha

To make a macramé is to __________. I hope by the end of this course you will be able to fill in that blank. Maybe for you, it is to create something new, explore your skills, a time of rest, to work with your hands, decompress from the day, or challenge yourself....
Line + Form with Diane Reeves

Line + Form with Diane Reeves

A blank canvas can be a high roadblock of doubt and fear, or an open door of imagination and possibility. I paint because I must; painting is how I process, create, and express my interior life, and maybe you want to paint for the same reasons. So, how can you get...
Free Art Video: Face Mapping with Pam Carriker

Free Art Video: Face Mapping with Pam Carriker

This is a free video with Pam Carriker taken from her course The Working Art Journal. This is a two part video (yes, both are included!) What better way to practice drawing and painting faces than by using the face you see reflecting back from you every day. By using...
Alter Ego with Idania Salcido

Alter Ego with Idania Salcido

They say that every artist paints himself, and I couldn’t agree more. Every artwork you create is a reflection of your story and yourself, and in this class I want to share with you how being mindful of my emotions and symbols has made me a better, more honest artist...
Free Art Video: Portable Art Studio with Jeanne Oliver

Free Art Video: Portable Art Studio with Jeanne Oliver

Jeanne Oliver is sharing the ease and intention of creating and using a portable art studio in her day-to-day life. Whether you want to start connecting more with your creativity, you make art regularly or even if you are a working artist…the portable art studio...
Soul Mosaic with Melody Ross

Soul Mosaic with Melody Ross

In this life, we get the chance to create and then recreate the version of ourselves that feels most true to us. At any time, we get to sort through the pieces of ourselves and decide what pieces we will continue to grow and develop, and what pieces it might be time...
Gathered Inspiration Boards with Jeanne Oliver

Gathered Inspiration Boards with Jeanne Oliver

I am a gatherer. I gather vintage papers, photographs, leftover bits of my own work, words from magazines, color palettes that inspire, foraged finds and composition ideas wherever I can find them. I often use these gathered pieces in my new works but first they often...
Rhythms and Rituals with Jeanne Oliver

Rhythms and Rituals with Jeanne Oliver

As we begin 2021 we want to offer a simple way to gather others that want to start the New Year with intention. With the division of this past year, financial uncertainty for many, and the reality of so many unknowns, I know that this time instead of feeling hopeful...
Free Art Video: Half Wit Bowls with Stephanie Lee

Free Art Video: Half Wit Bowls with Stephanie Lee

This is a free video with Stephanie Lee taken from her course Hand Formed: Simple Sculpting.  Experiment a little with just plaster gauze to create what she calls her “Half Wit” bowls.  This free video gives you a taste of the course and we hope you will...
Natural Art Brushes with Leslie Rottner

Natural Art Brushes with Leslie Rottner

Imagine if while out walking in a park, on a trail, or by the water you slow down and look at the beauty of the fallen branches and roots. Now, instead of just admiring them bring them home and give them a new purpose. Working with these branches and roots to uncover...
Land and Sky with Rebecca Sower

Land and Sky with Rebecca Sower

Sometimes the most interesting art arrives through layers upon layers. In Land and Sky, Rebecca will guide you through each of those layers where you will create beautiful abstract pieces inspired by the landscape. These steps will include creating your own collage...
Uniquely You Abstracts with Tammy Staab

Uniquely You Abstracts with Tammy Staab

Everyone is creative in their own way, with their own voice. So many stories of life to tell and years of emotions and intuition to pull from and use as inspiration to fuel your creativity. Working from intuition through many layers, you will learn how to create...
The Bookmaker with Roxanne Evans Stout

The Bookmaker with Roxanne Evans Stout

I began loving the book arts soon after I discovered collaging and creating with mixed media. The idea of a book, something with non-conventional pages that open and close or roll out, integrated with found objects, layers and textures, but not necessarily words, is...
Everyone is an Artist with Jan McCarthy

Everyone is an Artist with Jan McCarthy

Join Jan McCarthy as she walks you through how to discover your artistic voice and tell a story through abstract art making. Every painting tells a story but learning how to communicate the story you want to tell through art can be intimidating, especially when you...
Soul Doll Sculpture with Kecia Deveney

Soul Doll Sculpture with Kecia Deveney

Old baby shoes are so delightful. They hold so much love with every step taken and tenderness for the thought of the baby who wore them. I have a pair of leather boots that belonged to my grandmother and I kept a pair of sneakers that both my boys wore as toddlers....
Painting with Freedom with Melissa Fink

Painting with Freedom with Melissa Fink

The creative process invites us on a journey of exploration and expression. Sometimes along the way our creativity can be squelched by the desire to control the outcome and we lose sight of the beauty found within the process. In my own creative journey, I have found...
Palette Knife Play with Nicki Lang

Palette Knife Play with Nicki Lang

Join Nicki Lang on a journey into the satisfying delight of palette knife painting. From beginners to experienced painters, this class provides a wonderful opportunity to add a new set of tools to your box. In this class, Nicki will share with you her favorite tools...
Cut Paper Magic with Sharyn Sowell

Cut Paper Magic with Sharyn Sowell

Explore cut paper with Sharyn Sowell. Expand your understanding of shape, form, positive and negative space, and gather a wealth of fresh ideas to bring to your other art practices. Using simple, basic materials, Sharyn guides you through a buffet of ideas, techniques...
Made with Love with Danielle Donaldson

Made with Love with Danielle Donaldson

This course is a tried-and-true recipe, oh-so carefully crafted just for you! You’ll need a pen and pencil; some paint, a brush or two, too, and a little love for splish-splashy rainbows and mess-making with a little attention to detail. We’ll start with the basics—an...
Pen Paint Paper with Julie Hamilton

Pen Paint Paper with Julie Hamilton

This course is all about You! Using mixed media techniques you will discover what excites and inspires you to create. You will develop your visual vocabulary – the marks, the shapes, the line and texture that you are drawn to and expand upon them. You will be...
Fresh Blooms with Mary Gregory

Fresh Blooms with Mary Gregory

Join Mary Gregory for a floral still life art course for all levels. Using acrylic paints, brushes and palette knives among other things, we will paint beautiful, fresh blooms. I’ll guide you step-by-step and layer-by-layer. This course is suitable for beginning...
Linocut Bootcamp with Sofie Strasser

Linocut Bootcamp with Sofie Strasser

Linocut is a relief printing technique. The idea of using the easy to cut linoleum instead of hard wood as block-material for printmaking originated from the late 19th century and was primarily invented to teach printmaking in school classes. It is a very versatile...